Posted by Royce on Apr 22, '08 6:36 AM for everyone  This is it guys. I am going back to school again to pursue higher studies. I was scheduled for an interview with the program chair last week (April 17) but I was in Baguio & La Union for our Center Planning & Team Building. Earlier this morning I got a text that the interview will be at 3:45pm today. Out of my excitement in doing the video documentation of our event last week, I only remembered the interview past 4pm. And so from CSB I sprinted all the way to DLSU Bro. Andre Hall. I arrived 4:20pm at the program chair who was luckily still in his office waiting for me.
  The interview went well. He was pleased with my academic credentials and my work experience. He even commented that I might find some of the subjects in the PhD program very similar to what I have taken up in my MA. Nevertheless, he hopes that I will learn something new with what they have to offer. At some point he commented that I had a very peculiar curriculum in my Masters. Well, I simply told him that some of the subjects were refresher courses since I overstayed (hehehe  ). The bright side to it all is that I don't need to take any other pre-requisite courses even though he was contemplating on me taking up Cognitive Psych subjects. Thank God for those 9 refresher units - Advanced Social Psych, Industrial Relations, and Test Construction (another hehehe  ).
We then proceeded with the program advising. He asked me if I will be on Full time or Part time. The natural answer was Part time since I'd be working full time and the College allows 6 units (2 subjects) only under a trimestral system per term. Given that, the program chair prepared my program of study for my PhD Educational Psychology (with concentration in Quantitative Methods). After some thinking and typing in his computer, the computer printout spelled out my destiny for the next 3 years (if I stick to the plan that is). Well, I do plan to stick to it. My tolerance would be in finishing the program is before I turn 35.
This is no big joke. It would mean that I would have to organize my life all over again; set new priorities; and make goals. Talk about sleepless nights cramming, studying, doing research, exams, and other school stuff  . I do miss those things and so begins another chapter in my life at the age of 31 by April 28  .
Oh, by the way, who interviewed me, hmmm, he's no other than Professor & University Fellow, Allan B.I. Bernardo, PhD.
 | Congrats, Royce! I miss going back to school too. |
 | Soon to be Dr Roycie :) I likey.. Good luck there! |
 | So that explains why i saw you running to DLSU yesterday! Congratulations! Quantitative methods talaga?! |
 | Salamat sa lahat ng bumati... I hope na ganito pa rin ako ka optimistic when it's the actual thing hehehehe |
 | wow! indeed good news pareng royce! |
 | wow, congrats!
Pang DLSU na talaga ang level mo royce at iniwanan mo na nang tuluyan ang UST.
Sana magawa ko rin yan in the future!hehehe... |
 | kuya royce., congratulations! keep up the good job! May God bless you more po..
Advance birthday gift po kaya yan ni God? |
 | go go go, royce!!!!! kakatuwa ka naman!!!! |
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Congrats, Royce! I miss going back to school too. 